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treacle
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a syrup made from the sap of certain maple trees, especially the sugar maple.
See: maple syrup
Quotations
1835
I only wish you had been here to see your sister and the girls making sugar in the woods, sometimes up to their knees in snow, but they made one hundred and fifty pounds of sugar and sixty pounds of treacle.